Chimney



June 5, 1923.

C. A. KIDD I CHIMNEY Filed March 20 1925 61 Menu I; .s

Patented June 5, 1923.

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CAMERON a. KIDD, or Ansrnn; WEST VIRGINIA.

CHIMNEY.

Application filed March 20, 1923. Serial No. 626,407;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CAMERON A. KIDD, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Ansted, in the county of Fayette and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Chimney, of which the following is a* specification.

This invention aims to provide a simple means whereby the productsof combustion proceeding from a fire-place communicating with one room may be made eflective at the will of an operator, to heat an adjoining room.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in View, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that,

within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Inthe accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in vertical section, a device constructed in accordance with the invention; Figure 2 is a fragmental vertical section wherein the dampers have been shifted from the position shown in Figure 1.

The numeral 1 marks a floor and the numeral 2 a ceiling, a wall 3 extending between the floor and the ceiling, and defining rooms 1 and 5, on opposite sides of'the wall. A heater of any desired sort is provided and may be in the form of afire place 6 fashioned in the wall 3. The grate of the fire place is marked by the numeral 7. A chimney 8 is provided and. communicates with the fire place 6 by way of a passage 9 formed in the wall 3. A flue 10, preferably made of metal is offset horizontally from the chimney 8 and the wall 3 and extends into the room 5. The upper end 11 of the flue 1O enters the chimney 8, andthe lower end 12 of the flue passes through a portion of the wall 3 and communicates with the fire place 6. Bearings 14: are mounted in the wall 3 and in the chimney 8. In the bearings 14: a horizontal shaft 15 is journaled for rotation.

A damper 16 is secured to the shaft 15 and operates in the flue 10. A damper 17 issecured to the shaft 15 and operates in a tubular casing 18 located in the chimney 8.

,The dampers 1 6 and 17 are disposed at right angles to each other. The ends 19' of the shaft 15 project into the rooms 4 and 5.

l/Vhen the parts are arranged as shown in Figure 1, the damper 17 is in open position, and the damper 16 is in closed position. The.

products of combustion proceeding from the grate 7, pass through the chimney 8 and not through the flue. Under such circumstances,

tartar armethe room 5 is not heated by radiation-from the pipe or flue 10; If desired, the damper v I I 17 may be disposed in closedposition} and the damper 16 may be disposed in open position. Then, the passage of the products of combustion through the chimney 8 will be stopped, the products passing t-hrough the flue 10, the flue 10 being heated and serving, I

to radiate heat into the room 5. The dampers 16 and 17 may be manipulated either from the room 4 or from the room 5 because the ends of the shaft 15 rooms. 7

lVhatis claimed is ,1. In a device of the class described, sepaproject into the said rate rooms, a heater so located as toheat one room, a chimney through which the products of combustion pass from the heater, a flue located in the other room and communicating at it's ends with the heater and with the chimney, dampers controlling the flue and the chimney, and means for moving one damperto a closed position when the other damper'moves to an open position.

2. In a device ofthe class described, a partition forming separate rooms, a fire placelocated in the partition and so placed with respect to each other, t at one damper I will move toward open position when the other damper moves toward open position.

3. In a device of the class described, separate rooms, a heater so located as to heat one room, a chimney through which the products of combustion pass from the heater, a

flue located in the other room and comm-unieating at its ends with the heater and with the chimney, a shaft journaled in the ehim- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my and accessible at its ends from either my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature room, and dampers carried by the shaft, the in the presence of two Witnesses.

dampers controlling the chimney and the CAMERON A. KIDD. 5 flue, and being so set that one damper will Witnesses:

move toward closed position when the other H. O. WEBB,

damper moves toward open position. I G. H. BURDETTE. 

